AIIMS Nursing (BSc) Entrance General English Syllabus

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1. 1

   Grammar

   3 topics

   • Parts of Speech
     • Nouns, pronouns and articles
     • Verbs, tenses and modals
   • Sentence Structure
     • Subject-verb agreement
     • Active and passive voice
     • Direct and indirect speech
   • Common Errors
     • Error spotting and correction
     • Prepositions and conjunctions
2. 2

   Vocabulary

   3 topics

   • Word Meanings
     • Synonyms and antonyms
     • One-word substitution
   • Idioms and Phrases
     • Common idiomatic expressions
   • Spelling and Usage
     • Commonly misspelled words
     • Words often confused
3. 3

   Comprehension and Composition

   3 topics

   • Reading Comprehension
     • Passage-based questions
     • Inference and central idea
   • Sentence Rearrangement
     • Para jumbles
     • Ordering of sentences
   • Fill in the Blanks
     • Cloze test
     • Contextual word choice

General English flashcards for AIIMS Nursing (BSc) Entrance

20 of 50 cards from the General English deck — real questions with worked answers.

1. What are the eight traditional parts of speech in English?

   Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

2. What is the difference between a common noun and a proper noun?

   A common noun names a general person, place, or thing (city, woman) and is not capitalized; a proper noun names a specific one (Delhi, Sita) and is always capitalized.

3. What is an abstract noun? Give an example.

   A noun naming an idea, quality, or state that cannot be perceived by the five senses, e.g., honesty, freedom, happiness.

4. What is a collective noun? Give two examples.

   A noun that names a group of people or things treated as a single unit, e.g., a herd of cattle, a bunch of grapes.

5. Name the three degrees of comparison of adjectives with an example.

   Positive (tall), comparative (taller), and superlative (tallest).

6. What is the difference between a transitive and an intransitive verb?

   A transitive verb needs a direct object (She wrote a letter); an intransitive verb does not take an object (He slept).

7. What are the three kinds of pronouns illustrated by 'I', 'who', and 'this'?

   'I' is a personal pronoun, 'who' is a relative/interrogative pronoun, and 'this' is a demonstrative pronoun.

8. What is an adverb, and which questions does it answer?

   An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb, answering how, when, where, why, or to what extent (e.g., quickly, yesterday, here).

9. What is the function of a conjunction? Name the two main types.

   A conjunction joins words, phrases, or clauses. The two main types are coordinating (and, but, or) and subordinating (because, although, if).

10. What is a preposition? Give three examples.

    A word showing the relationship of a noun/pronoun to another word in the sentence, e.g., in, on, between.

11. What are the four kinds of sentences by function?

    Declarative (statement), interrogative (question), imperative (command/request), and exclamatory (strong feeling).

12. What are the three sentence structures classified by clauses?

    Simple (one independent clause), compound (two or more independent clauses), and complex (one independent plus one or more dependent clauses). A compound-complex sentence combines both.

13. What is the difference between a phrase and a clause?

    A phrase is a group of words with no subject-verb pair; a clause contains a subject and a finite verb.

14. What is the difference between an independent and a dependent clause?

    An independent (main) clause expresses a complete thought and can stand alone; a dependent (subordinate) clause does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone.

15. What is the basic word order of a standard English declarative sentence?

    Subject + Verb + Object (SVO), e.g., 'The dog (S) chased (V) the ball (O).'

16. What is subject-verb agreement?

    The rule that a verb must agree with its subject in number and person: a singular subject takes a singular verb, and a plural subject takes a plural verb.

17. Is the verb singular or plural with subjects joined by 'either...or'/'neither...nor'?

    The verb agrees with the nearer subject (the one closest to the verb), e.g., 'Neither the teacher nor the students were present.'

18. Correct the error: 'Each of the boys have a book.'

    'Each of the boys HAS a book.' 'Each' is singular and takes a singular verb.

19. Correct the error: 'He is junior than me.'

    'He is junior TO me.' Words like junior, senior, superior, inferior, and prior take 'to', not 'than'.

20. Correct the error: 'I am living here since 2010.'

    'I HAVE BEEN living here since 2010.' Actions continuing from a past point use the present perfect continuous, not the present continuous.

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